E3M5: Dungeons of the Dark (Serenity)

E3M5: Dungeons of the Dark is the fifth level of Serenity. It was designed by Bjorn Hermans and Holger Nathrath, and uses a MIDI rendition of the main theme from , composed by.

Secrets
There are no official secrets in this level but you can jump without the blue key in the rocket launcher room.

Bugs
In the blue key room, if you back off the platform at the top of the stairs as it rises, it will become impossible to finish the level without the noclip cheat, as there is no way to call it back down again.

Thing 122, a spectre, is placed in a space (sector 111) which is too small for it to fit in, and is thus immobilized.

Speedrunning
As this level does not contain official secrets, the NM 100S category is redundant.

Current records
The records for the map at the Doom Speed Demo Archive are:

The data was last verified in its entirety on August 2, 2022.

Player spawns
This level contains five spawn points:
 * 1) facing east. (thing 226)
 * 2) facing east. (thing 227)
 * 3) facing east. (thing 228)
 * 4) facing east. (thing 229)
 * 5) facing east. (thing 230)

Things
This level contains the following numbers of things per skill level:

Inspiration and development
An early version of this map appeared as E2M3 of the collection "Nathrath's Fab Four" (NATHRATH.WAD).